First big AI milestone was when ChatGPT 3.5 was released by OpenAI in November 2022, but we haven’t seen any other big impacts in the AI field until 18 days ago in January 2025, when DeepSeek R1 was released!
Future scientists will refer to January 2025 as the ‘DeepSeek AI Phenomenon.’
Exceeding other LLMs in performance benchmarks, demonstrating amazing deep reasoning, providing visibility into the chain of thought while generating responses, being open source, and offering cheaper solutions, what else do I need to switch from Chatgpt (was the best model) to deepseek? Since the release of DeepSeek R1, it has had a significant financial impact on the tech industry, particularly the US stock market, triggering a capital reduction exceeding $1 trillion across global markets, with NVIDIA’s market cap loss of over $600 billion alone.
This massive financial disruption in the US tech industry, especially in AI, isn’t only because a Chinese startup succeeded in building an AI model with a different method (RL). Rather, it shows US tech companies’ overconfidence in their perceived unique advantage in software and AI over all other countries.
Deepseek impact is so huge that marked the second big milestone in ai industry. Well done to the talented foudner Liang Wenfeng.
Mohsin With E 